Tom Lee

A Kafkaesque and darkly humorous "suburban gothic" that tracks the unraveling of man's body, mind, and life. James Orr--husband, father, reliable employee and all-around model citizen--awakes one morning to find half his face paralyzed. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he stops going to work and wanders his idyllic estate, with its woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins to unravel, it appears that James himself may not be the man he thought he was. A deeply unsettling story of creeping horror that consistently confounds expectations, The Alarming Palsy of James Orr introduces a writer of extraordinary and disturbing talents.

The Alarming Palsy of James Orr

One of the strangestand most appealing novels you will read this year! Tom Lee's first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationshipwith an older woman. She is both his coach and his mentor. Coach Fitz, as hecalls her, seeks to instil a philosophy of running which combines 'controlledintensity' with a curiosity about places and their histories. A country boy, heis fascinated by the landscapes of the city beaches and parks through which theytravel. And he has his own obsessions - with exercise routines, ancestrallegacies, outdoor gyms, horse-racing, weather conditions and inner-city eatinghabits. Then, suddenly, their relationship falls apart, over the issue of sex -and he becomes a coach and mentor in turn, to a young man this time, as he attemptsto orchestrate an ideal expression of his emotional, athletic and intellectualurges. Coach Fitz is an exploration of the outdoor mentality that playssuch a dominant role in the Australian psyche. It is remarkable for itsobservations about landscape and physical exercise, embedded in the trainingroutines and dialogues of the runners. But most of all it is about the emotionsand aspirations of youth, and the complications these engender.

Coach Fitz

Jim Icarus is a handsome twenty-two year old who is invited to trek to the base camp of Mount Everest by his Dad, Alex. His adventures start by saving a boy from a burning helicopter. He falls in love with Charley, a pretty emergency physician. She helps resuscitate his Dad who succumbs to high altitude mountain sickness in Dingboche, Nepal. By luck a working group who has spent the summer and fall cleaning the trash from the base camp of Mount Everest is camped a few hundred yards from Jim's trekking party when his Dad goes into high altitude cerebral edema. Their Gamow hyperbaric bag is successful in resuscitating his Dad out of coma, but unfortunately Alex slips back into coma. Good fortune smiles again when a French physician from the High Altitude Mountain Rescue clinic in Pheriche arrives with her Jacque Cousteau designed hyperbaric chamber that will pressure the victim down to sea level. An injection of Niphedapine under Alex's tongue and a dive in the Cousteau bag brings Alex out of his coma once again. Alex survives a trip to a lower altitude on a makeshift stretcher with oxygen flowing, but is in poor condition. Only a daring helicopter rescue offers any hope, but leaves Jim wondering about the fate of his Dad. The rest of the trekking party marches up the trail and eventually five members summit Kala Patthar, but not without another high altitude sickness casualty. Meanwhile, Jim hurries down the mountain only to have to wait in Lukla for a flight back to Kathmandu. Alex recovers unbeknownst to Jim and sight sees around Kathmandu. Charley transports the other coma patient by rescue helicopter, but never quite hooks up with Jim. Jim finally meets his Dad and they recount the events that nearly melted their wings.

Melt My Wings

Rashi Glazer

David Liu

John Bressler

Michael Margulies

Greg Vontz

Stroke ranks as the third leading cause of death in the U.S. After a series of clinical trials, Genentechs Activase®, a drug for preventing the blood clots that cause strokes, was approved by the FDA. One of the most significant issues Genentech faced was educating the market on stroke therapy with Activase. The stroke market not only included the hospitals and physicians, but also patients as well. Since the therapy was time dependent, patients need to know a new therapy was available for which they had to seek prompt medical attention. This clearly pointed to the need for public education on the signs and symptoms of stroke and the treatment benefits of Activase. The need to educate patients and physicians created a strategic challenge. In what sequence should Genentech educate the marketphysicians first and then the public, the reverse order, or both simultaneously? What were the costs to implement these strategies?

Introduction of the First Therapy for Acute Stroke

Genentech

"First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2017."

Doctor Jimmy Capri was anxious. Doctor Maureen "Mo" Lally had coerced him into presenting their paper at a military medical meeting in Hanoi. He feared that returning to Vietnam would unmask the post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD that he suffered from his first tour at First Marines First Medical Battalion in Da Nang and that he had managed to submerge for over thirty-five years. The memories that had lain dormant did surface, including being shot and the details of his love affair with Mai Nguyen, a nurse at WHO Children"s Hospital. What he didn't anticipate from his short stay in Vietnam, was a new love.

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